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...energy balance, forcing changes to its climate. VOCs clearly have an intimate relationship with Earth and its life. If we can develop ways to identify VOCs and where they might have come from, we can apply this knowledge to similar environments elsewhere, perhaps even to other planetary bodies where life might have existed in the past. The presence or distribution of VOCs...

...energy in a fraction of a second than the sun will pump out in ten billion years. For several decades we have observed these gamma ray bursts, but without knowing for sure what causes them. However, just 1.7 seconds after the gravitational waves from GW170817 arrived at the Earth, NASA’s Fermi satellite observed a short burst of gamma rays in the same general region of...

...in it. This means these experiments are helping us to understand how life originated here on Earth, and the potential for life to survive elsewhere in our Solar System and beyond. A live Facebook Q&A We also ran a Facebook Live event, demonstrating how microgravity research helps scientific research and allowing people to join ask questions. You can watch it again below....